Crew candidates had their first chance to see "what kind of an animal" the new coach was last night, as Tom Bolles himself expressed it. Bill Bingham started the meeting at 8 o'clock in Lowell House Common Room and was followed by Captain Eddie Bennett, who then introduced the new mentor.

Bolles opened by saying that western material was in no way--superior to what he had found in the east. The heaviest man on the Washington crew was 186 pounds, he said, and Don Hume, the stroke, weighed about 160. After seeing the gathering at the meeting he believed that the material at Harvard would certainly be satisfactory.

"There are five prerequisities for good rowing," he said; "some water to row on, naturally, then some shells, material or man power, somebody to teach the fundamentals and to--get the crew swinging together, and lastly, spirit or morale." He expressed satisfaction with the Charles as a place to row on, and was especially pleased with the material, saying he had never seen so many shells together in one place before.

"Morale is a hard thing to define," he said. "You have all probably had the experience of being on some crew or team which beat a superior opponent simply by virtue of better spirit. We can only light the spark and hope to see it burst into flame."

He continued by saying that there would be a few changes in the style of rowing which he would to into later, and finished by quoting Kipling's poem, "If," which he said was particularly applicable to crew.

Mr. Bingham opened the meeting by telling of the problems of picking a new coach. The field was narrowed down to three men and of these Bolles was finally chosen.

Eddie Bennett said he hoped every one would come out for crew in the fall as this was especially important with a new coach to get used to the changes in form. Last year's Varsity, Jayvee, and Freshman crews would be kept intact as much as possible, he added